Sugar Adopts GPL v3 License

The upcoming release of Sugar Community Edition 5.0 (formerly known as Sugar Open Source) will be licensed under the new Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is the most widely used free and open source (FOSS) license in the market. Sugar 5.0 is targeted for release in the September timeframe.

You can read about the announcement in this press release, and can discuss details with other Community members and Sugar employees in this forum. Please read the extensive FAQ for further details about what this announcement means to developers, administrators, resellers, and end users of Sugar.

Sugar Developer Newswire

We are getting ready to release Beta 1 of Sugar 5.0 within the next week or two. You can preview the edition in our Community Preview area and also can download the code in our Downloads area when it becomes available. For Sugar Professional and Enterprise customers, you will find the code located in the Downloads area of the Support portal.
Thank you to our Community contributors! We have included several contributions to the 4.5.1e patch release of the code. We will include several more in the 4.5.1f patch, which will be released in the next few weeks.
Mário Martins is looking to start a Sugar Developer User Group (SDUG) in Portugal. He's looking for other developers in the area who are interested in discussing implementation, coding, and Sugar framework ideas. If you are interested, please contact him. If you'd like to start your own SDUG in your area, please send the SugarForge team a note and we'll help you get started.
And speaking of fledgling SDUGs, Matt Kenigson is also looking to start a group in his area (Tennessee, USA). Please contact him if you are interested in getting together with other Southeastern SDUGers.
Sugar University is offering live in-person Administrator training sessions this summer. This comprehensive two-day learning session provides system administrators with the skills and best practices to administer Sugar for optimum results. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises, students will learn and apply the key competencies needed to set up, configure, maintain, and customize Sugar. Catch us in New York City on August 23-24, right after the CRM Acceleration event. We're also making plans to offer the class in London on September 19-20.
Have you noticed? We added a "random tips" section to the forums, filled with helpful information after every third post in a thread. Hope you enjoy them!

Podcast Series on iTunes

We have been adding new episodes once a week to our series of podcasts. These two to three minute audio podcasts are called "60 Second Sugar Snippets" and are available on iTunes and on our website.

Recent topics have included:

Accounts vs. Opportunities
Customization design tips
3 Levels of "Why" (for getting the real answer behind the customization requests you get from end users)
Campaign Tips

Process Manager for OS is July's Project of the Month

This month we feature an interview with Bill Convis and the Process Manager for OS Project.

Process Manager is an automated workflow for Sugar 4.5.1 that allows you to automatically send emails, schedule calls, or create tasks based on the creation or modification of tasks in Sugar.

For more information, please visit the project of the month page.

Upcoming Webinars

The Sugar Dev Users Group (SDUG) is hosting several free webinars in the next few months, featuring speakers from the Global Developer Conference that was held in early May.

Speakers and topics include:

Upgrade-Safe customizations with Sadek Baroudi (August 1)

To register for a webinar, visit our SDUG page.

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